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Excrete

Definition: Excrete

Excrete

Verb

1. Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Excrete \Ex*crete"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Excreted; present participle verb or noun Excreting.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Excrete

DomainDefinition

Health

To get rid of waste from the body. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Excretion

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Excretion is the biological process by which an organism separates waste products from its body. The waste products are then usually expelled from the body by elimination.

In mammals, for example, the two major excretory processes are the formation of urine in the kidneys and the formation of feces in the intestines. The waste products are eliminated by defecation and urination respectively.

In insects, a system involving Malpighian tubules is utilized to excrete metabolic waste. Metabolic wastes diffuses or is activiley transported into the tubule, which transports the wastes to the intestines. The metabolic waste is then released from the body along with fecal material.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Excretion."

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Synonyms: Excrete

Synonyms: egest (v), eliminate (v), pass (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Excrete

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Excretion

Verb: excrete; (eject); emanate; (come out).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Excrete

English words defined with "excrete": eliminate, empty, evacuate, Excern, Excrementive, Excretedkidney, kidney failureperspire, purgerenal failuresweatvoid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "excrete": Acidosis, Renal TubularKidney Concentrating Abilityrenal tubular. (references)
Etymologies containing "excrete": Excretin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Excrete" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (excrete).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Excrete

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Diuretics help the body excrete excess fluid. (references)

The level drops if the kidneys excrete potassium into urine instead of returning it to the blood supply. (references)

It helps maintain blood pressure and water and salt balance in the body by helping the kidney retain sodium and excrete potassium. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Excrete

"Excrete" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.72% of the time. "Excrete" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)51.72%1590,616
Lexical Verb (base form)48.28%1493,893
                    Total100.00%29N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Excrete

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

excrete

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Excrete

Language Translations for "excrete"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sekretohet, nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏طرح (deduct, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏أفرز (secrete, sweat), ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

下泄 (Excreted, Excreting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vymìšovat (secrete). (various references)

   

Danish

  

udsondre (to excrete), udskille (to excrete). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

excrementen uitscheiden (to excrete), ontlasting uitscheiden (to excrete). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پس دادن (Giveback, Refund, Repay, Restore, Retort), دفع کردن (Dispel, Ejaculate, Eject, Exorcise, Quench, Raise, Repel, Repulse), بیرون انداختن (Bounce, Eject, Expel, Sputter). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

erittää (secrete). (various references)

   

French

  

excréter (to excrete). (various references)

   

German

  

ausscheiden (be eliminated, drop out, eliminate, pass, reject, retire, to eliminate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εκκρίνω (exude, release, secrete). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"פריש צוא". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiválaszt (choose, cull, exude, pick out, secrete, sort out, to cut out, to designate, to excrete, to exude, to predestinate, to select, to separate, to single out, to sort). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengeluarkan (educe, elicit, expel, secrete), berak (excrement, faeces, movement). (various references)

   

Italian

  

espellere (discharge, eject, evict, expel, oust). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keckey (defecate, defecation, dung, dunging, excretion). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

utsondre, skille ut. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

excreteay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

excretar (secrete), evacuar (evacuate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

excreta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выделять (accentuate, allot, detail, emphasize, evolve, extract, exude, give off, give out, highlight, isolate, liberate, mete, parcel out, secrete, segregate, show favor, show favour), извергать (disgorge, ejaculate, eject, eructate, erupt, regurgitate, reject, spew, spout). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izlučiti (exude, ooze). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

excrete, excretar (to excrete), dividir (break up, come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disjoint, disperse, divide, divide off, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avsöndra (discharge, eliminate, exude, ooze, secrete, separate, separate off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

salgılamak (secrete), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Excrete

Derivations

Words beginning with "excrete": excreted, excreter, excreters, excretes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Excrete" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccrete, ecree, ecrete, Encreve, eucrite, excer, excert, excete, excreet, excreete, excreme, excret, excreter, excretia, excrude, execrete, extrete. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Excrete"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "excrete" (pronounced ikskrē"t)
5-s k r ē" tdiscreet, discrete, indiscreet.
4-k r ē" tconcrete, secrete.
3-r ē" tgreet, mistreat, retreat, Street, treat.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Excrete

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-r-t-x"

-2 letters: erect, exert, terce.

-3 letters: cere, cete, exec, rete, tree.

-4 letters: cee, ere, rec, ree, ret, rex, tee.

-5 letters: er, et, ex, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-r-t-x"
 

+1 letter: excreted, excreter, excretes, execrate, executer.

 

+2 letters: coexerted, excerpted, excerpter, excrement, excreters, execrated, execrates, executers.

 

+3 letters: exacerbate, excerpters, excrements, excrescent, execrative, overexcite.

 

+4 letters: exacerbated, exacerbates, excremental, executioner, executrices, executrixes, expectorate, neocortexes, overexcited, overexcites.

 

+5 letters: excrescently, executioners, expectorated, expectorates, exteroceptor, hyperexcited, postexercise, preexistence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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